If you’ve been hanging ’round these parts for a while, you know there are an abundance of the following items in our house: chicken, steak, chocolate, bacon, rice, chicken and more chicken. And chocolate chip cookies.

If Mr. How Sweet could eat one food for the rest of his life, it would probably be steak. But if he was granted a second choice, he would wash that steak down with chocolate chip cookies.

And if he was really lucky, he’d stand over the sink shoveling said cookies in his mouth and drinking Diet Coke.

But there are only so many cookies a girl can eat. And trust me, I can eat a lot of cookies.

So I decided to shake things up a bit… but take it slowly. After all, I didn’t need any tantrums. How about presenting Mr. How Sweet with a cake that tasted like a chocolate chip cookie?

With a bit of a salty glaze. Because if there is anything I love more than chocolate and peanut butter, it’s chocolate and sea salt.

Which probably explains why I chased a Snickers bar with three Pringles in my younger years. Courtesy of Mother Lovett’s snack cupboard of course. I started early.

I asked Mr. How Sweet how he felt about the cake bars, and he threw out a few “happy” obscenities that just aren’t appropriate for this family friendly blog. But he did say that they don’t really taste like cake, since he doesn’t love cake. And they obviously aren’t cookies… but they are gooey, almost pastry-like… and really, really delicious.

And they must have been great, because at 10 o’clock on Saturday night, they were gone. Like… completely gone. A mere 10 hours since I had first baked them. We had no guests. We don’t have pets. I guess we just have bottomless pits?

Cream butter and sugars in the bowl and of electric mixer. Add vanilla, and add eggs one at a time. In separate bowl, mix flour, baking powder and salt. Add half of the dry ingredients to the butter mixture, alternating with the milk and ending with the dry ingredients. Toss chocolate chips with a tiny bit of flour and them fold them into the batter.

I die. #1 for this crazy-delicious dessert that is neither cookie or cake. #2 for Mr. How Sweet. When you were talking about cookies in the beginning, I was like Waaait, what about the DIET COKE?! Haha…should have known you wouldn’t leave that out ;)

You are like a magician with your chocolate. If I didn’t have plans tonight, I’d totally be leaving work and immediately making these. (Incidentally, I bought all the ingredients for your white bean hash at the grocery store last night…can’t wait to make it!)

Thank you Jessica, you make me feel so much better after eating cookies, a cupcake, AND ice cream.
May I come visit you and help you eat all of your yummy treats? We can exercise afterwards too if you like.

Had an extraordinarily bad week. Like think bad week and multiply it by a million and your half way there. Stumbled across your blog and this recipe caught my eye. My husband has been under far too much stress and I’m hoping this cookie/cake will cheer him. It’s all his favorite flavors in one bite. Thank you for having such a wonderful witty blog. Making your BBQ beer chicken tomorrow!

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I’m Jessica and this is where I share my stuff. You will find a balance of healthy recipes, comfort food and indulgent desserts.

I am madly, passionately, inexplicably in love with food. Bacon makes me beam. Chocolate makes me shout from the rooftops with joy. Vegetables and I are the best of frenemies. My perfect world would include none of them.
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